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Broadway Cast

Billy Elliot

Covers

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Date

14th February 2009

Location

Imperial Theatre, New York, NY, USA

Source

Audience

Filmer unknown
Lineage unknown
Authored by unknown

Rating

9.9/10

Tech Details

DVD

Picture format: NTSC
Aspect ratio Wide screen / 16:9
Audio LPCM
Running time 134 mins
Song Chapters YES
Menu/s YES

Comments

Single camera filming from high up in the balcony to the left of the stage.

Good steady filming with some nice close ups 

although there are occasions when a wide shot would be better

to capture everything that is going on rather than just the single singer.

Sound is uncompressed so naturally very good quality.

There are, however, a few parts of the show missing, 

- a total of around ten minutes over all - 

most of these are dialogue with the obvious exception of 

"We'd Go Dancing" ("Grandma's Song) &

'He Could Be a Star' neither of which were filmed.

Everything else mentioned below is complete.

with very few cover ups except at the end of the big numbers.

Cast

Kiril Kulish as Billy
David Bologna as Michael
Erin Whyland as Debbie
Haydn Gwynne as Mrs Wilkinson
Gregory Jbara as Dad
Carole Shelley as Grandma
Santino Fontana as Tony
Thommie Retter as Mr Braithwaite
Joel Hatch as George
? - Billy's Older Self (u/s)
Leah Hocking - Dean Mum
Matthew Mindler as Small Boy
Keean Johnson as Tall Boy

Track Listing

chapter marks 

are numbered

DVD1

Act One (73mins)

1 Newsreel / 

Stars Look Down

Scene: Breakfast Time

Scene: Boxing Class

2 Shine

Scene: Remembering Granddad

[Grandma's song - missing]

3 Solidarity

Scene: Dad finds out

 scene: In the toilet with Mrs. Wilkinson 

Scene: Billy & Michael dress up

4 Expressing Yourself

[scene: Dad & Tony - missing]

Scene: First Private Lesson

5 Dear Billy (the Letter)

6 Born To Boogie

scene: In the toilet with Debbie

Scene: Audition Preparation

Scene: Morning of the Audition

7 Angry Dance

DVD2

Act Two (61 mins)

1 Merry Christmas Mrs. Thatcher

[scene missing]

Deep Into the Ground [end only]

Scene: Michael and the Tutu

2 Swan Lake Dream Ballet

[Scene: Dad & Mrs. Wilkinson - missing]

[He Could Be A Star - missing]

Scene: Collection for Billy

Scene the Royal Ballet School

3 Electricity

Scene: Receiving the Results

Scene: Goodbye Mrs. Wilkinson

4 Once We Were Kings

5 Dear Billy (The Letter Reprise)

6 Finale

--curtain calls / bows--